“The man who can't do most things and won't do the rest”

“A man that is born falls into a dream like a man who falls into the sea. If he tries to climb out into the air as inexperienced people endeavor to do, he drowns.”

“It's only those who do nothing that make no mistakes, I suppose.”

“I can't afford to despise anything. An absurdity may be the starting-point of the most dangerous complications.”

“Joseph Conrad once said that a man who is born falls into a dream like a man who falls into the sea”

“The sea has never been friendly to man. At most it has been the accomplice of human restlessness.”

“We are snared into doing things for which we get called names, and things for which we get hanged, and yet the spirit may well survive - survive the condemnations, survive the halter, by Jove! And there are things - they look small enough sometimes too - by which some of us are totally and completely undone.”